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15 Percent Of Women Say They Were Denied Promotions Because Of Gender
By Bryce Covert In a recent Gallup poll, 15 percent of American women said that they have been passed over for a promotion or an opportunity at work because of their gender. Thirteen percent reported having been denied a raise … Continue reading
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Tagged fair wages, gender discrimination, Gender equality, job, money, promotion, salary, United States, wages, women, workplace
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Why Jobs Go Unfilled Even in Times of High Unemployment
By Amy Sullivan Skills for America’s Future, a policy initiative run out of the Aspen Institute, was created in 2010 as a spin-off of President Obama’s Jobs Council and was originally led by longtime Obama supporter Penny Pritzker. With Pritzker now … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspen Institute, employment, job training, jobs, skill, unemployment, United States
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Memo to police: No, you’re not making us feel safe!
By Brittney Cooper Since a federal judge ruled last week that the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk techniques was unconstitutional, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly have staunchly defended this law enforcement tactic, continuing to credit the practice with … Continue reading
Mass incarceration does injustice to millions of American children
By Michael Leo Owens Reform criminal justice now. That was the core message US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered recently to the American Bar Association and our nation. He declared that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for … Continue reading
How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
By Clive Thompson Joseph Bonicioli mostly uses the same internet you and I do. He pays a service provider a monthly fee to get him online. But to talk to his friends and neighbors in Athens, Greece, hes also got something much … Continue reading
How Schools Have Become Dead Zones of the Imagination
By Henry A. Giroux “Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility … Continue reading
11 facts about America’s prison population
By Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas Here’s a bit of context for Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to encourage federal prosecutors to charge low-level drug offenders with less severe crimes (thanks to Dylan Matthews and Brad Plumer for doing a … Continue reading
African Woman Enslaved for Years in Georgia
By Ryan Abbott An American couple enslaved an African woman for two years after luring her here with an offer of a two-week job catering, the woman from Swaziland claims in court. Thembi Dlamini sued Juna Babb and her husband Michael Babb in Federal Court. … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, Federal lawsuit, Georgia, Juna Babb, modern slavery, slavery, Swaziland, Thembi Dlamini, United States
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